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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Examining Roads and Bridges.

The Rural Vermonter publishes a
communication on the railroad COM
mission which begins by demanding
from the commission Gan inspection OF
the roadways, bridges, etc., of the va
rious roads," and further on adds: 81
notice cropping out here and there a
tendency to criticise the commission
ers, which ought to be met and turned
into other channels" Doesn't this
correspondent see the glazing absurdi-
ty of men unacquainted either with
railroad building, bridge building, or
mechanics of any kind, going about
the state examining the condition of
railroads and bridgesq Does he not
know that after the commission has
examined a railroad bridge and approx
ed of it, however unsafe it may be,
the railroad company is absOlved from
liability should it collapse the next
day and kill a score of passengers ?
We have no doubt the railroads of the
state are perfectly satisfied with the
present commission but in order to
be of any value to the state so far as
examining roads and bridges are con-
cerned, the commission must be COM
posed, in part at least, of practical and
skillful mechanics. Until that is done
the ten thousand dollars voted by the
legislature is simply so much "swag"
dished out to political favorites. When
the taxpayers of the state understand
this matter we do not believe they will
approve it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Grade Crossings.

An effort is being made to put an
end to or protect railroad crossings at
grade in Connecticut. At a hearing
before the state railroad commission
ers the other day one man truthfully
said every life sacrificed on one of
these grade crossings that might have
been saved by gate or fiagman is a
life sacrificed by the company to save
the money that gate or fiagman
would cost" There were killed at the
crossings of the wealthy New York,
New Haven & Hartford recently 10
people in single week, whereat the
Springfield Republican observes that
ga railroad which kills 10 people a
week at crossings ought to be indicted
for MURDER" and the Boston Journal
adds that the only "demandn which a
wealthy company which thus calmly
ignores the killing of many persons at
grade crossings would be likely to pay
any heed would be that of a law COM
Polling the maintenance of gates or
fagmen at these crossings, under
heavy penalty. The net earnings of
the above company, which shrinks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
March Under CIeveIand's Por-
trait.

At Wheeling, W. Va, a large pro-
portion of the Grand Army who par
ticlpated in the demonstration Friday
refused to pass under the portrait of
President Cleveland suspended from
the Register Office; nearly the entire
column made a detour, and dropped
their cOlOrs in passing the picture.
The action caused considerable ex-
citement in the city. There were over
5000 veterans in line.
The total number of deaths by the
late ChatswOrth disaster has reached
seventy nine.
All the hOd carriers in Chicago work
ing for less than standard wages have
been, under pain of expulsion, ordered
by the union to strike unless accorded
full prices.
Thirty persons were injured Satur-
day by collision between a passenger
and freight train near Chattanooga ;
due to one engineers watch being four
minutes slow.
The Connecticut river lumber mill
at Holyeke, with machinery and con-
tents, was burned early Sunday morn
ing. The loss will be $45, 900 insured
ABOUT I4U men were employed, on a
pay roll of $4,000 month.
A fresh attempt was made to kill the
Car on the Goth. A Nihilist, disguis-
ed as an officer of the guards, approach
ed the imperial carriage on a journey
from st. Petersburg to Krasnoesls and
fired a revolver twice. The first shot
missed the Gar but the second perfo-
rated his coat.
Jimmy McDevitt, well known
burglar, killed himself Sunday while
escaping from store where he had
been stealing. Discovered by the por-
ter, he jumped through plate glass
window and was fatally cut by the
fragments. He was disembOweled and
died almost instantly.
G. A. Percy, aged %, a wagon max
er, made safe trip through the whirl-
pool rapids, Niagara, Sunday in life
boat built by himself the past sum-
mer. The boat is IL feet long with an
air chamber at either end, at one OF
which Percy made the voyage. The
journey was simply experimental. The
boat having come through all right he
will now model a. life boat on large
scale, aud ask for patent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Trouble in the Rutland Schools.

Rutland is disturbed over the fact
that III of the IA teachers i'm it's public
schools with the beginning of the fall
term are Catholics. Last spring Rut-
land adopted the town system OF
schools, (outside the graded district)
and elected six directors. 1t turns out
that four of them are Catholics. The
Herald says that apparently nobody
thought about the religious preferences
of the candidates as the only issue al
the polls was between the Citizens
ticket and the Knights of Labor ticket
More than five hundred citizens-large-
ly Protestants-neglected to turn out
and vote, SO the X. of L. ticket sue
ceeded. The school directors have
now chosen IA teachers for the autumn
term of schools and III of them are
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
The Record Takes a Hopeful View.

The Boston Record, commenting on
the article in last weeks Caledonian,
"English as She is Learned" says:
1t has been complained that the
schools of Vermont are not what they
ought to be. From lack of interest OF
lack of support it is declared that they
have declined. But we are inclined to
take hopeful view of the case. To a
large extent the vigor and breeziness
of a school depends on the pupils, and
evidence exists that goes to show that
the Vermont pupil is about as shrewd
as ever. The tinge of quaint humOr
that has long characterized his fathers
also distinguishes him.
The Record thinks the trouble must
be with the teachers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
SUTTON,

Mrs. VIM. Green and children have
gone to N. H. on a visit.
Miss Belle Barker goes back to
Montpelier to school this week.
Willis Harris fell and broke his arm
while at his fathers farm in Lyndon.
w. B. Atwood and his family are
spending their vacation at F. j. Camp
bells.
Mrs. McGaskell from Montreal is
visiting this week at her brothers, F.
M. Abbotts.
Gertie, daughter of w. B. Eastman,
fell from a hammock on Monday and
broke her arm.
Rev. A. p. Tracy and H. A. Blake
attended the quarterly meeting at
Newport centre last week.
1t is said that Rev. A. p. Tracy has
received a unanimous call to the Free
Baptist church at Alton, N. III.
Henry Ball started for Boston last
Friday. We expect he will visit the
Rocky Mountains before he returns.
Henry Fisher and family who have
been spending the summer with his
mother Mrs. VIM. Ruggles returned
home Tuesday.
The Ladies' Aid are to hold a corr
party at N. X. Campbells, Friday, Sept
2. They are to have exercises by the
children and expect grand time.
The next session of the Vermont
yearly meeting of Freewil Baptists
will be held at So. Strafford Sept. 8-II
Conference Thursday the 9th at one
o'clock, p. M. All who pay full fare
over the Pass. to POmpanoOsuc can
have return checks, the same to be
furnished by the Y. M. clerk. Teams
will be at the station Sept. 9Th to con-
vey delegates and others to So. Straf-
ord if notice is given to Rev. j. D.
Waldron, So. Stanford.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
VERMONT NEWS.
Vermont Crops.


The August crop report from the
Department of Agriculture gives the
following estimate of the condition OF
growing crops in Vermont: Corn 1Ol
per cent; spring wheat, %; spring
rye, 90; oats, I0I; clover hay, 100;
apples, rs; grapes, 81. No estimate is
made of potatoes, and local reports are
not encouraging. The hay estimate is
low enough.
Fatal Accident at Barre.
Edwin Brown of Worcester H. E.
Coffrin and Fred l.. Gray of Montpel-
Ter, painters, were thrown 4S feet to
tile ground on Thursday by the break
ing of the staging at Barre, and Brown
died soon after. COffrin's ankles were
were seriously injured, his hand lac
Grated and he was otherwise bruised.
Gray jumped for the ropes when the
staging fell and hung until rescued.
Brown was % years old and unmarried.
The Vermont Horse Breeders AssOeia-
ton.
At Rutland, Sept. 7, and 9, occurs
the third annual exhibition of this as
ISOLATION. There are to be nine speed
contests, five of which are for colts
from one to five years old. The ex-
hlbitiOn of horses promises to be the
largest ever shown in this state, if not
in New England The two meetings
already held are an assurance of quiz
ct and orderly exhibition, free from all
Objectionable features. Over three
Thousand dollars will be distributed in
stakes and premiums, which will be
competed for by the best animals of
the horse kind that the state produces.
Gored by a Bull.
A young man named Evans, was
severely gored by a large bull owned
by H. +. COlburn, at the latter's barn
in Rutland, Sunday 2lst. He went in
to the stable to turn the animal out,
when he was attacked and thrown
down two or three times. Finally the
bull struck him in the lower part of
the abdomen and tossed him through
window, which is doubtless all that
saved his life.
Experience Comes High.
Patrick Kane of Montpelier, Cen
trail Vermont railroad section hand,
who works between Montpelier juno
ton and Mortified found railroad
torpedo lying beside the track Friday
afternoon. He struck it with a crow
bar and it exploded, tearing away a
portion of his nose and upper lip.
The Johnson normal school opens
Tuesday, Sept. 6. A large number of
students will be present to fit them
selves for better work in teaching.
Two new teachers have been added to
the list of instructors. Besides the
model school, the students will have
practice in training class of older pu-
pills.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Bennington county Jail Saturday night
by saving their way out with case
knife. Two of them were held in
$1,000 bonds for pocket-picking Au-
gust Is, and the other, William o.
Burnys, was in for felOnious assault,
in default Of $4,000 bail. The pick
pockets were Albany thieves, calling
themselves John E. Bishop and Edward
w. Parry. The Jail was literally
wrecked, and all three were locked in
separate cells.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

Sheffield Square, beginning Sept. g..
Several ministers from abroad, includ-
ing Rev. A. B. Riggs of the st. Adams
district, are expected. All are invited
to attend.
Gilman Nelson left Sheffield June 6
for his home in Nelson, CAL, and re-
turned this week for his family. While
he was gone he harvested $4,000 BUSH
els of wheat and barley and has sold
the most of it. He has a machine that
will cut, thresh and sack at the same
time.
There was law suit here Tuesday,
Town of Sheffield VS.. Alfred Gray,
Plaintiff claimed that Gray did not 60
according to law in a case over which
he presided. There was a short hear
ing and the case was appealed to Coun-
ty court. E. May for town, w. p. Stat
ford for Gray.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
"Massa Linkum's Boy"

The Robert Lincoln darky campaign
song is given on second page. In for
mer years such things aroused the
masses wonderfully, notably in the
Harrison campaign. 1t would not be
the strangest thing that ever happen
ed if the solid South should be broken
by this very enthusiasm for "Massa
Linkum's boy" and that many repub-
lican electoral votes should be given
in '68 from states now reckOned as
surely democratic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
WEST CONCORD.

Henry Hendrick, son of widow Hen
drick, died last Sunday, aged Is years,
and was buried on Tuesday. He was
her only son.
There has not been a season for a
good many years when there has been
so much repairing and cleaning up as
the present season.
The gospel workers of st. JOhnsbury
will occupy the pulpit of Rev. j. E.
FarrOw on Sunday next-the pastor
goes to Holland on church business.
Some of the friends of the M. E.
church turned out on Friday and Sat
urday and shingled the parsonage and
now they intend to put on two or three
coats of paint.
There are several cases of typhoid
fever in the village and at Concord
Corner. There has been one death at
the Corner, G. Richardson, son of Geo.
Richardson, who died the morning of
the 29th and was buried the 3Ist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
A Few Short Conundrums.

Since the managers of the agricul
tural societies of this county have Civ.
en- their entire printing to a political
favorite these queries arise Are the
agricultural societies run as an annex
or feeder to the Republican syndicate
of this place And if so is it for pO-
litical reasons And if the managers
of these societies wont have anything
but Blaine printing will they also dis.
card every thing offered for premium
except that raised or owned by politi-
cal favOrites
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
SHEFFIELD.

School commences in the village
Monday, taught by Jennie ingalls,.
A. j. Giffin and wife and I'll. d.
WEIGH and wife are at Stanstead Plain.
C. I'll. Garland and Rev. j. r. Frank
lin attended the Free Baptist quarterly
meeting at Newport Centre.
The Baptist church Ladies' Aid So
ciety will meet with Mrs. Abram
Thomas, Friday afternoon, Sept. 2.
John L. Flanders is building a barn
on the lot purchased of b. Ingalls,. He
intends building the house this fall.
Grove meeting commences next
Tuesday in G.. B. Simpsons woods. 1t
is expected it will last four days and
quite a number of clergy are to be
there through the entire meeting.
There will be grove meeting at
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Presentation of Account.

CTATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT, IS
- In Pr obate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. JOhnsbury, in said district the 29th day of
August, A ID. 1887.
Ora Bishop and Emily Peck, Administrators up
the Estate of Simon Peck, late of Danville, in
said district deceased, present their administra-
ton account for examination and allowance, and
make application for decree of distribution and
partition of the estate of said deceased.
WhereupOn, it is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred to session
thereof to be held at the Probate Office in said
st. Johnsbhry the Goth day of September, A. d.
1887, for hearing and decision thereon: and it is
further ordered that notice hereof be given to all
three weeks successfully in the Caledonan,
newspaper published at St JOhnsbury, previous
to said time appointed for hearing that they may
appear at said time and place and show cause, If
any they may have why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made.
BY the Court, Attest,
1416 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
EAST HARDWICK,
SIS Julia Pope is in town.

Miss Julia Pope is in town.
Sidney Davis is assistant postmaster.
Miss May Field has been sick and
had to leave her school.
Mrs. F. j. French is putting into her
house steam heating apparatus.
Wheat and potatoes are very light :,
corn and oats are about on an average.
Merchant Edgar Hunt and family
have gone to Boston and vicinity for
a brief visit.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
LYNDON.

L. X. Quimby is spending the week
in Boston.
Miss Eva Quimby has returned to
her school in Springfield.
Curtis Quimby has gone to ST. Johns
bury to live this winter; working for
for j. d. Miller.
Miss Sarah Bigelow has returned to
her home in Chelsea, Mass. She has
been spending the summer at her ia
theirs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

John B. Moore, tho veteran hOrti-
culturist of Concord, Mass, died last
week at the age of seventy. He intro
duced the culture of the Concord grape
and originated many famous strawber-
ries and other fruits. The New York
World thinks he was worth more to
the country than the entire Concord
school of philosophy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Ghe Tateduniair.

A correspondent of the Danville
North Star comes out with the declar-
alton for Senator Edmunds as a repub-
lican candidate for the presidency in
1888. 1t is feared that this cOrrespOn-
dent is either too previous or too late,
we are not positive which.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

The New York Tribune, and papers
of that stamp, have been abusing Pres
ident Cleveland for offering ten dol
lar prize to New York county fair for
the best set of triplets. 1t turns out
that no such offer, nor anything like
it, has ever been made or contemplate
ed by the President. The item served
its nurDose however
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

from the expense of protecting human
life at grade crossings, amounted last
year to IA per cent. of its capital stock,
and it has a cash surplus of over three
millions. Grade crossings must either
go or be protected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

inscription: ssOn this spot William
Lloyd Garrison edited the Journal of
the Times, October 3, 1928 March 81,
1929. Hither came Benjamin Lundy to
enlist him in the cause of the slave.
Garrison departed hence to lift up in
Baltimore the banner of immediate
emancipation"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
RYEGATE.

Mrs. J. r. Miller of Boston is visit
ing her parents.
Geo. Nelson has large force of help
this week filling his silO.
The Emery children are quite sick
with typhoid dysentery.
The Wright brothers returned to
Boston, Monday morning.
Typhoid fever prevails to some ex-
tent in the vicinity of South Ryegate.
Herman Miller and wife have gone
to Maine, after spending the summer
in town.
Peter COwan, who is in the employ
of A. Stowell & Co., of Boston, is
spending his vacation in town.
Mrs. Elmo and Mrs. Arch. Miller OF
Boston, who have been Visiting par
ents and friends in town, have return
ed home.
Preparations are being made to en-
terrain delegates of synod and other
guests. Refreshments viii be served
in the large barn built this summer by
NJ. r. Gray.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
ASSUMPSIC.

Village school commenced last Mon
with Miss Dora Howe as teacher.
Frank Little has moved from here
to McIndOes where he is to work for
the Connecticut Lumber Co.
The friends of Byron Smith and wife
given them surprise party last Tues
day evening which was enjoyed by all
DraSant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

A London gas company which had
sent in bill for $64 had to accept $40
on complaint of the consumer to a
magistrate that he had paid but $39
for the preceding quarter, and in that
time had used more gas than in the
subsequent quarter. If the gas COM
panies in the United States were oblig-
ed to make similar reductions for sim
out of every company in the country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
c. A. WHITCHER,
So Main st. ST. JOHNSBURY, VT.
commissioners Notice.

JUN ID. III EN- . EoIAIE
The subscribers having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the district of Gale
donna, commissioners, corrective, examine and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against the
tate of John b. Aver, late of St Johnsbury,
in said district deceased represented nsolvent and
the term of six months from the Goth day of Aug.
A. d. 1887, being allowed by said Court to the
creditors of said deceased, to exhibit and prove
their respective claims before us: Give notice
that will attend to the duties of our appoint
ment at the house of Lois A. Aver in st. Johns
bury, in said district the 10th day of September
and the 10th day of February next, at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon each of said days.
TIC Join e F; A V sHERRY Com'rs
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
CABOT.

CABOI.
Miss Julia Harrington goes to Mon
tague, Mass, this week for visit.
A Relief Corps of eighteen members
was organized Friday. Mrs. Oscar
Morrill, is at its head.
Mrs. Allen Perry returned from
Maine last week. Miss Gertrude Wis
we'll is expected this week.
George Gould returned the first of
the week from the West, where he has
been to buy cattle. He purchased
about sixty.
Mrs. Caroline Gum, Mrs. Lyman o.
Gum and Mrs. Belle (Farrington)
Nimms of Montague, Mass, have been
visiting i'm town. Mrs. A. HI. Gerry of
South Hadley Falls is expected soon.
Several of our young people are at
tending schools in other towns. Misses
Shirley Smith, Mary Haines and Lillian
Wells are at st. Johnsbury, also Walter
Smith and Carl Fisher. Walter Os-
good, Misses Flora and Susie Atkins,
Mary Burnap and Myrtle BOyles are in
attendance at Montpelier seminary if
your correspondent is rightly informed.
There has been much sickness in
town during the past TWO OF Ghree
weeks. Mrs. Britt, whose illness was
noticed in a recent issue of this paper,
died Friday. Mrs. Clara G.. Morse and
her daughter Alice were both quite ill
for few days, but are much better.
L. C. Fisher is quite sick with typhoid
fever. George Gould is also on the
sick list.
The village schools begin Monday.
Mr.. Goodell of Wells River is to have
charge of the upper grade. Miss Alice
Morse was obliged to give up her po-
sition in the primary department on
account of her illness, and Miss Eta
Stevens of E. Hardwick has been en-
gagged in her place. Miss Alma Leon
ard of E. Calais is to teach at Lower
Cabot; Miss Nellie Myers in the Read
district; Miss Mary McAliaster in the
Foster district; Miss Josie Beedle at
Patarsvilla
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
DANVILLE.

Frank Harris came to town Wednes-
day on visit.
j. C. Fuller left town Wednesday
morning for Newport.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01

The RichfOrd Gazette thinks that
"reaping a rich harvest in American
freights at the expense of the United
States transcOntinental lines is non
sense. If such "harvest" were being
reaped signs thereof would be plenty
in Richford. The Southeastern rail
way is the southern outlet of the Ca
madam Pacific road and RichfOrd is
the port of entry. Thus far there has
been no phenomenal increase of east
or west freights via this route. The
Gazette thinks that it is the Grand
Trunk and Central Vermont line that
Is reaping the rich harvest.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
LYNDON CENTRE.

B. o. Cheney has bargained his
stock of goods to man from Hyde
Park.
d. S. Winter has moved into the
house he bought of Jennie Darling,
having put all the buildings in thor
Ough repair.
The fall term at the institute opened
last Tuesday with large attendance.
Mr.. Ham and Miss Wilson take the
places made vacant 10y the resignation
of Prof. Draper and Miss White.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-09-01
Ridpath's Universal History

is by Prof j. c. Ridpath. LII. ID. and bids fair to
be as popular his History of the U. s.. of which
half million copies have been sold. 1t is charm
ing in STYLE prOfusely and beautifully illustrated.
1t is recently published and contains the modern
discoveries. Though veritable history it is charm
ing a novel. Children well as older persons
are delighted with it, 1t is in three large volumes
and gives the history of the world. Both these
works published by Phillips a. Hunt, N. Y,
and sold only by agents. Mr.. Morse is agent and
will promptly attend to orders. Copies will be
furnished for examination wien desired. Mr..
Morse IN be addressed through the Post Office.